“Hence we may infer, that the human mind is, so to speak, a perpetual forge of idols….The human mind, stuffed as it is with presumptuous rashness, dares to imagine a god suited to its own capacity; as it labours under dullness, nay, is sunk in the grossest ignorance, it substitutes vanity and an empty phantom in the place of God. To these evils another is added. The god whom man has thus conceived inwardly he attempts to embody outwardly.” -John Calvin trans. by Henry Beveridge, Institutes of the Christian Religion III, 1845 (orig. 1581): chapter 11, paragraph 8.
“Improper worship abounds in Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, , “enough that the god who is worshipped in many American churches today is not the God of the Bible, so the Jesus whose coming we celebrate (during Advent) would be unwelcome in many American churches”. The prevalent form of idolatry is “the worship of the god of our imagination rather than God as revealed in Scripture…When we imagine God differently than how Scripture describes Him, we are actually forging an idol in our minds. Idolatry begins in our minds when we exchange the truth of God for our own “truth”: (Romans 1:22-23). “Because of this exchange, God gives people over to various dishonorable passions, most notably homosexuality (Romans 1:26-27). When people abandon the fundamentally-different God in exchange for gods resembling themselves, is it any wonder that they proceed to abandon the fundamentally-different opposite sex in exchange for what is the same? That is exactly what many American churches have done. They have abandoned the God of the Bible in exchange for a god that was created in the mind of man and resembles man.” “Contrary to Scripture they think that He makes mistakes, changes, and is largely absent. They deny Jesus’s divinity and see the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force. And since many believe that our God is the same as the god of the non-Messianic Jews and Muslims, they think He accepts any and all worship. As a result, they teach an overly-simplistic version of God: that God is love—and not much else. They have no concept of His holiness, righteousness, justice, and wrath. As a result, many people view God as the harmless and lovable grandpa who could never hurt a fly, much less condemn anyone to hell.” “The modern view of Jesus is similarly worthless, lacking any semblance of power. As we discussed recently, the church at large (like society) has become very effeminate, so the resulting depiction of Jesus has become effeminate as well: a hippy with fair complexion, long hair, and soft clothing. In many “worship” songs, Jesus is portrayed as the doting boyfriend. As a result, it is often difficult to differentiate worship songs from pop love songs, especially with lyrics involving sloppy wet kisses” (American Idolatry: The Golden Calves and High Places of the American Church, Dan Hult, Staff and Hammer Blood, Dec. 14, 2023)
Only a church that is a true worshipper in the spirit and the truth of the Lord can protect and defend the Christian foundations of our own homeland. A church that worships golden calves is incapable of defending and protecting the foundations, and in fact, makes it easy for worldview enemies to tear down our homelands foundations. A church of golden calves is what Christendom’s church had become, and that allowed God haters and secular liberals to tear down the Christian foundations of Christendom leading to its death. Now alien dead flesh eaters are consuming the carcass of secular liberal W. Europe. Before it’s too late, the American church needs to repent and become a church where true worship in spirit and the truth of the Lord takes place. @Linda